Disturbance leads to neglect arrest

A young Muncie mother was arrested on a neglect-of-a-dependent charge early Thursday after police were called to a disturbance at her southside home.

A visitor to her home, meanwhile, was accused of spitting blood on a police officer.

City police were sent to 1431 W. 11th St. about 1:20 a.m., and at first found Dylan Tyler Roberts, 20, Alexandria, lying on the front porch with “blood all over him.”

Roberts proclaimed he was “dying,” an officer reported, despite assurances that his wound — its location and how it was inflicted were not detailed in an affidavit — was not that severe.

Roberts and a 17-year-old youth screamed and cursed at police, the document said, with the Alexandria man spitting blood at an officer.

Both were taken to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital for examinations. Roberts — preliminarily charged with battery by bodily waste, resisting law enforcement disorderly conduct and illegal consumption of alcohol — was taken to the Delaware County jail; the 17-year-old was taken to the county’s juvenile detention center. A 20-year-old Muncie woman was also cited for illegal alcohol consumption.

The occupant of the 11th Street house, Victoria L. Coates, 20, at some point returned home. An officer wrote that Coates told him she had left her sleeping 3-year-old son in the care of the “three intoxicated minors” while she “went to the gas station.”